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Cloudflare Alternatives
Self-hosting
Self-hosting often works great, but it requires some effort to setup. It is more aimed at technical people.
We might create a guide for some self-hosting basics which don't require Cloudflare. IPFS may be worth consideration if performance is the main concern.
Apache is vulnerable to various low-bandwidth attacks. Use other server software such as Caddy, lighttpd or nginx.
Best way to protect your server from DDoS
- Avoid any third-party service that can intercept HTTP traffic (like Cloudflare)
- Install WAF on your loadbalancer.
- Even simple ModSecurity can save you.
- Add rate-limit to your nftable(firewall) and server software.
- Just drop the excessive connection.
Alternatives
| Alternative | Drawback | Price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akamai | can be used to block Tor | ? | https://akamai.net/ |
| BunnyCDN | ? | $0.01+ | https://bunnycdn.com/ |
| Codeberg pages | support censorship; no custom domain support; tor hostility | Free | https://pages.codeberg.org/ |
| Gitee pages | must understand Chinese | Free | https://gitee.com/help/articles/4136 |
| Github pages | uses Microsoft servers | Free | https://pages.github.com/ (WARNING: Tor/VPN users will get their account blocked automatically by Github) |
| Level 3 | ? | Enterprise | https://www.centurylink.com/ |
| PerimeterX | not gratis | ? | - |
| Sharktech DDoS Solutions | ? | ? | https://sharktech.net/ |
| Surge.sh | Modifies *.surge.sh/robots.txt response | Free | https://surge.sh/ |
| Voxility | ? | ? | https://www.voxility.com/ |
| eQualitie | not gratis | gratis during COVID19 | https://equalit.ie/ |
| neoCities | static pages | Free | https://neocities.org/ |
| sucuri | not gratis; tor hostility at ~3.483% | $200+ | https://sucuri.net/ |
Not researched yet
- CDNJS: sponsored by Cloudflare. It might use it in the background.
Why X is not included
| X | Reason |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare Argo | Uses Cloudflare. |
| DDoS-GUARD | just like CloudFlare. |
| Gitlab pages | GitLab is now Cloudflared |
| Imperva | Uses Cloudflare. |
| jsDelivr | Uses Cloudflare, see their network page |
| Netlify | Uses Amazon AWS which is also a content delivery network. It would be hypocritical to include it. |
| Siteground | Tor-hostile people. |
History
Sucuri and eQualitie have a history of CloudFlare patronage, but no longer.